Opening Doors - Janet Elder

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Résumé :
CONNECT READING provides a personalized learning plan for each student, continually developed and refined as students achieve mastery.? Each student plan is created through an individualized diagnostic that evaluates skills from 7th-grade level through college-readiness, for second-language learners, international students, adult students, and traditional high-schoolers.? Offered completely online, CONNECT READING can be used in conjunction with NEW WORLDS or OPENING DOORS, which provide a printed experience that teaches critical reading skills through close reading of anthologized chapters from best-selling undergraduate texts in Psychology, Sociology, Business, and more....

Biographie:
JANET ELDER was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin with a B.A. in English and Latin. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was the recipient of a government fellowship for Southern Methodist University's Reading Research Program, which resulted in a master's degree. Her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in reading is from Texas Woman's University where the College of Education presented her the Outstanding Dissertation Award. She established the first comprehensive secondary reading program in the Dallas Independent School District, and has conducted extensive staff development training for Dallas area teachers. After teaching reading and study skills courses at Richland for several years, she was asked to develop and implement an honors program for the college. After coordinating the honors program during its first six years, she resumed teaching full time. In addition to teaching reading courses, Dr. Elder periodically serves on interdisciplanary teaching teams for honors English and humanities courses. She has served on a task force that re-evaluated Richland's writing-across-the-curriculum program. She has twice received the Extra Mile Award from special services (disabilities) students, has twice been her division's Piper Award nominee for excellence in teaching, and in 1993 received an Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. In 1999 she was one of three nominees for Richland's Excellence in Teaching Award. A frequent presenter at professional conferences and inservice workshops, she has a deep interest and expertise in brain friendly instruction....

Sommaire:

* - New reading selections for this edition

To the Instructor: Getting Started in Opening Doors

To the Student

PART ONE: ORIENTATION: PREPARING AND ORGANIZING YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE

CHAPTER ONE: MAKING YOURSELF SUCCESSFUL IN COLLEGE

Skills

Doing What Successful Students Do

Motivating Yourself

Setting Your Goals

Identifying How You Prefer to Learn

Mananging Your Time

Setting Up a Weekly Study Schedule

Making the Most of Your Study Time

Planning Further Ahead: Creating a Monthly Assignment Calendar and Using a Daily To Do List

Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards

Readings

*Selection 1-1 Why Go to College from P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life by Robert S. Feldman (Student Success)

*Selection 1-2 Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow from Understanding Business by William Nickels, James McHugh, and Susan McHugh(Business)

*Selection 1-3 Saved from The Autobiography of Malcom X, as told to Alex Haley (Literature)

CHAPTER TWO: APPROACHING COLLEGE READING AND DEVELOPING A COLLEGE-LEVEL VOCABULARY

Skills

Understanding the Reading Process

Improving Your Reading

Predicting as You Read

Monitoring Your Comprehension

Adjusting Your Reading Rate

Developing a College-Level Vocabulary

Using Context Clues

Using Word-Structure Class

Using a Dictionary Pronunciation Key

Understanding Denotations and Connotations of Words

Understanding Figurative Language

A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Context Clues and Figurative Language

Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards

Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Context Clues, Part 2

Test Your Understanding: Word-Structure, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Word-Structure, Part 2

Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 1

Test Your Understanding: Figurative Language, Part 2

Readings

*Selection 2-1 Making It Happen: Creating Positive Change to Become a Peak Perfomer from Peak Performance: Success in College and Beyond by Sharon K. Ferrett (Student Success)

*Selection 2-2 Terrorism in a Global Age from Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic by James Davidson et al. (History)

*Selection 2-3 A Whale of a Survival Problem from The Nature of Life by John Postlehwait and Janet Hopson (Biology)

CHAPTER THREE: APPROACHING COLLEGE ASSIGNMENTS: READING TEXTBOOKS AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS

Skills

College Textbooks: Methods for Reading and Studying Effectively

The SQ3R Study System

The Three-Step Process for Reading and Studying Textbooks

Step 1: Prepare to Read

Step 2: Ask and Answer Questions to Enhance your Reading

Step 3: Review by Rehearsing the Answers to Your Questions

Following Directions in Textbooks and on Tests

Guidelines for Following Directions

Creating Your Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards

Readings

*Selection 3-1 African Americans: The Struggle for Equality from The American Democracy by Thomas E. Patterson(Government)

*Selection 3-2 Parenthood: Now, Later,...Never? from Human Development by Diane E. Papalia, Sally Wendkos Olds, and Ruth Feldman(Human Development)

*Selection 3-3 Art in the Service of Religion from Living with Art by Rita Gilbert (Art Appreciation)

PART TWO: COMPREHENSION: UNDERSTANDING COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS BY READING FOR IDEAS

CHAPTER FOUR: DETERMINING THE TOPIC AND THE STATED MAIN IDEA

Skills

The Topic of a Paragraph

What is the Topic of a Paragraph, and...